A little levity for your Saturday... Also put this wonderful Sara Benincasa answer to "Why Am I So Fat?" on your vagenda.
Month: August 2016
H&M can say that it's outraged by finding out its clothes are made by 14 year olds in Burma all it wants to. But when H&M decides to contract out.
What a guy: NBA star Dwyane Wade's cousin Nykea Aldridge was fatally shot Friday pushing a child in a stroller in a Chicago. Less than 24 hours later, Donald Trump.
Supply chains exist so that corporations can acquire necessary materials without holding any responsibility over conditions of labor, environmental management, logistical headaches, or anything else. They exist to protect the parent company from liability. So it's hardly surprising that Volkswagen would respond to the discovery...
Bernie Sanders, left, speaks with Hillary Clinton during a break at a Democratic presidential primary debate Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015, at Saint Anselm College in Manchester,.
Confusion 8/22/2015 If Trump is nominated, then everything we think we know about presidential nominations is wrong. Delusion 8/27/2015 When the race settles down and begins to gel, the.
We recently passed the anniversary of Nat Turner's 1831 rebellion. And we should remember it and celebrate the bravery of Turner and his followers to fight back against the horrors of slavery.* However, not to be overly pedantic, but the idea, as this piece in...
Brownies and hummus. I'm someone who would sample every flavor of.
The Raiders want to move to Las Vegas. They are their partners, i.e., the always lovely Sheldon Adelson, are demanding the city pay a mere $750 million for the stadium,.
There's a forum at N+1 about yesterday's NLRB decision overturning the Brown decision and granting graduate students at private universities collective bargaining rights. Want to point you to the contribution by Gabriel Winant and Alyssa Battistoni. Universities use the same arguments against unions as any...
I get a lot of mail from organizations that can't get competent PR.
Sounds like Canada needs to build a big wall to protect itself from these scary migrants who are probably bringing crime to the northern paradise, not to mention stealing Canadian.